All who are
acquainted with the difficulties attendant on any endeavour to
discover truth, will at once be able to form some estimate of those
which the Author has encountered in producing the following Work,
where, amidst the most extraordinary contrariety of evidence, it was
necessary to record the minutest circumstances with accuracy. It
would be presumption to declare that he has been successful in doing
so in every instance, but he may be permitted to state, that neither
time, labour, travel, nor correspondence have been spared, to ensure
the correctness of all facts, however trifling, and he is
consequently disposed to believe, that if errors do exist anywhere
throughout the whole narrative, they must necessarily be so small
both in number and importance, as to leave to it all the character
of fidelity that can belong to a human performance. He is the more
emboldened to express this conviction, because every information was
readily supplied to him by those distinguished personages who bore
prominent parts in the scenes described, the sheets being afterwards
subjected to their strict revision, for which he begs thus to
express his most grateful acknowledgments.

At the risk of increasing the number of its pages, but with the hope
of imparting to them a greater degree of interest in the eyes of
those who are unacquainted with Scotland, it has been thought right
to notice the antiquities, and other objects of interest, as well as
to describe the scenery all along the route of The Queen’s Progress.

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